dental hygiene

noun

1. the maintenance of the teeth and gums in healthy condition, esp by proper brushing, the removal of plaque, etc Also calledoral hygiene

Example Sentences

Guys with horrible dental hygiene still chew scenery and gibberish still unvaryingly stands in for dialogue.

From The Daily Beast

Finally, the dental, medical, and nursing professions and the press must be enlisted in the school's campaign for dental hygiene.

From Project Gutenberg

Not one of these would print articles proving that the supplies advertised by their backers were inimical to dental hygiene.

From Project Gutenberg

Schools should see that parents understand the æsthetics, the economics, the humanity of dental hygiene.

From Project Gutenberg

The medieval surgeon arranged his rules in ten distinct canons, creating in this way a kind of decalogue of dental hygiene.

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